Improvement in clothes-driers



G. W. 'PAGE.

Improvement in Clothes-Briers.

No. 132,920. Patented No v .l2,1872.

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GEORGE W. PAGE, OF HENRIETTA, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHES-DRIERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 132,920, dated November 12,1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. PAGE, of Henrietta, in the county of Lorain, State of Ohio, have invented certain Improvements in Bracket-Shelf and Clothes-Rack combined, of which the following is a specification embodying my invention:

Nature and Object.

The nature of my invention consists in combining with bracket-shelves a number of radial arms, in such manner that they may be adjusted so as to stand out at right angles from the shelf or wall, or, when not in use, to hang down in a perpendicular line from under the shelf to which they are attached; and has for its object a convenient and valuable combination of bracket-shelf and clothes-drier or rack, the bracket-shelf serving for the usual purpose of such shelf, while the arms combined therewith shall serve the purpose of a clothes-rack.

The Drawing.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a front elevation of the combined bracket-shelf B and arms F complete and in position against the wall, with the arms F up in position for use 5 Fig. 2 is the same as Fig. 1, but with the arms hanging in a perpendicular position up on the half-circular rod D as when not in use;

- Fig. 3 is an enlarged detached View, omitting the arms and showing only the bracket 0, halfcircular rod D, shelf B, and back A; while Fig. 4 is a detached view of the arm F, showing the socket H, made of malleable castiron, and the slot I which operates on the half-circular rod D, as hereinafter more particularly described.

Construction and Operation. The bracket 0 is cast in any ornamental form which the fancy may suggest, and is secured to the lower half of the back A and to the under side of the shelf B. The outer end of the bracket 0 is enlarged at E, and where a hole is made through which to pass the half-circular rod D, as plainly shown in Fig. 3. The arms F are fitted into the metallic sockets H, the outer endsof which latter have an oblong slot, I, (see Fig. 4.) Before the bracket 0 and rod D are permanently placed in position the desired number of armsbe the same 6, 8, or 12-are passed over the rod D, through the slot I, so that each socket hangs and operates upon the rod D by the slot I, as clearly shown in the drawing. This substantially completes the construction, and the operation is as follows, viz:

Take Fig. 2 as the complete device shown and described, and as it appears when the arms are thrown down out of the way and not in use. To raise the arms, or any one or more of them, take hold of the lower extremity of the arm F and raise it up till it comes on a line with the under surface of the shelf B, and by means of the slot I the arm is pushed in against the back A, or nearly so, when the extreme inner end of the socket II will firmly rest against the under side of the shelf B, and when the arms will maintain the position seen in Fig. 1, and by pulling the arms out till the end of the slot I comes in contact with the rod D, they will drop down and hang in-the position seen'in Fig. 2, and when they are entirely out of the way.

[ do not limit myself to any particular style .of bracket 0, shelf B, or back A, as I contemplate manufacturing these parts in a variety of styles, from the plainest to the most fanciful designs; and I will further state that for the cheapest possible form of the combined bracket-shelf and clothes-rack, the bracket 0 may be made of wood, and in place of round arms F, provided with metallic sockets H, I shall make the arms of thin strips of hard wood, and pierce the oblong slot I through the widest. end and round the end beyond the slot, the same as seen in Fig. 4.

Witnesses W. SALADEE, H. G. PAGE. 

